Heard the one about the scientist trying to find the world's funniest joke? He's deadly serious - and psychologist Dr Richard Wiseman will spend the next year collecting thousands of gags in an ...

The World's Funniest! is an American reality show that aired on Fox in 1997. It was hosted by NFL sportscaster James Brown and announced by Mark Thompson. The show was similar in format to ABC's ...

The little heroes in Nikolaus Heidelbach’s picture books do not live in a colourful children’s paradise, nor are they angelically innocent beings themselves either. The Cologne author’s narrative ...

Matt Lindley acknowledged this in his brilliant piece, Idioms of the World. Inspired by his fine work, Comtec did a little research into interesting and funny foreign idioms and found a few other ...